Switzerland is a country, where migration flows have constantly been growing during the 20th and 21st centuries, and whose authorities have to think constantly of how to restrain them. This article, prepared on the basis of two sources: newspaper material and field ethnographic material collected by the author, examines state Muslim policy in the context of modern religiousness in Switzerland. The author emphasizes that Switzerland has become the first country which renounced the idea of cultural tolerance so widespread in Europe in postwar time. The authorities themselves call their political course a “policy of zero tolerance,” which they actively pursue toward Muslim migrants.
Switzerland, Islam, Muslims, Islamic ideology, state power, Swiss, citizenship, tolerance, identity.